blunt warning. the president saying the hate and fear that has been allowed to fester in the united states is now threatening america s democracy as he made an emotional visit to buffalo to meet with the families who lost loved ones in the racist massacre over the weekend. plus, the truth is out there. and lawmakers want to get to the bottom of it, today, holding their first public hearing on ufos in decades. why lawmakers warn ufos pose a potential national security threat. leading this hour, it is primary day. the first polls are about to close in what is one of the most consequential days of the year. we re learning the leading democratic senate candidate john fetterman is about to get a pacemaker installed after suffering a stroke last week. jessica dean is live in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, following fetterman s campaign. a lot of health questions for fetterman in the closing days of the race. how is the campaign dealing with it? well, i just spoke with his campaign
good evening everyone, i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett, ukraine s president zelenskyy declaring tonight as russia faces another setback, new video shows a russian battalion decimated as it tries to cross a series of bridges in northeast ukraine. you can see the riverbank just littered with russian artillery. artillery and tanks. u.s. official says attacks like this are quote-unquote, frustrating, russian efforts to move troops into the donbas region. and according to the pentagon, ukraine has essentially stalled putin s war plans. they have prevented the russians from achieving virtually any of their strategic objectives thus far in the war. we re also getting new images outside kharkiv where ukrainian forces have pushed back russian troops from ukraine s second largest city. check points and buildings once occupied by putin s forces now back in ukrainian control. meanwhile, in the south, told difficult negotiations are still under way to get out some of the seriou
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reporter: well if we take mariupol, that extraordinary fight still going on with 700 fighters from the ukrainian side holding out against the odds, most, if not all civilians have been evacuated from mariupol but they continue to be pounded. they even claimed the ukrainian sides have launched a minor counterattack to try to drive the russian forces back from the perimeter of that steel plant. that s been a very important draw away of troops to be focused that could have been focused where i am on the kramatorsk which really is the strategic prize in the campaign now of the russians now that they have gone from effectively wanting to commit regime change to capturing the donbas. this is the biggest city remaining in ukrainian hands in the donbas region and the regions of luhansk and donetsk and as you re rightly pointing out there in the introduction, there s been a significant battle over the pontoon bridge over the last couple days with
Check points and buildings once occupied by putin s forces now back in ukrainian control. meanwhile, in the south, told difficult negotiations are still under way to get out some of the seriously injured ukrainian soldiers inside that sprawling steel plant. a top official saying that russia keeps changing the conditions for their release while continuing to bombard and attack the plant. and despite ukraine s advances, one ukrainian lawmaker today describes the frontlines this way it is hell, saying they cannot win without more weapons and more support from the united states. specifically, air defense systems and fighter jets. now, we have reporters across ukraine this evening, i want to start with sam kiley outfront live in kramatorsk. what is the latest on the ground now?